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1Changes in 1.2.3 (2011-12-31):
2
3* Fix to build with wxWidgets 2.9.2.
4
5* (Mac OS X version):
6
7  + Processing .svx files from aven now works.
8
9  + Remove spurious blank lines from the licence text in "Get Info".
10
11  + Don't create the help menu at all, as it is empty (because the "About"
12    entry goes elsewhere) and sometimes seems to appear in the UI.
13
14  + INSTALL.OSX: Update to reflect current status.
15
16* aven:
17
18  + Fix Y coordinates of surface surveys on printouts.  (Closes #32)
19
20  + Improvements to text plotted on the survey pane:
21
22    - Support plotting Unicode character points > 256 by lazily loading the
23      data for them from the font file and plotting them with a direct call to
24      glBitmap(), which is slower but doesn't require a display list per
25      character.
26
27    - Adjust the spacing from fixed width to putting a one pixel gap either
28      side of each one character (so two between adjacent glyphs).  Mostly this
29      reduces the horizontal width, but it adds a pixel for characters like "m"
30      and two in a few cases.
31
32    - Fix .pixelfont file generation to correctly handle characters wider than
33      8 pixels.
34
35  + Fix expected cross shape so don't always reject using texture mapping to
36    draw crosses.
37
38  + As we read a survey file, eliminate tubes consisting of zero XSECTs as well
39    as those consisting of just one.  Previously we would trip over the empty
40    tube later.  Such tubes can for example be created by extend if a splay shot
41    is the start or end of a tube.
42
43  + Make the green colour used for entrances in the survey tree the same
44    (slightly darker than before) green used for the entrance blobs.
45
46  + Report the version of the library we're actually running with if built
47    against wx >= 2.9.2.  Make it clear that the version reported is the
48    version *built* with for wx < 2.9.2.
49
50* extend:
51
52  + Copy the end markers for passage tubes.
53
54  + Preserve left and right data for tubes (previously they were set to -1.0
55    which means "no info").
56
57* img library: Fix incorrect comment in img.h which claimed that img_XFLAG_END
58  was no longer used - it certainly is!
59
60* Use curly double quotes instead of "`" and "'" to quote filenames, etc in
61  messages, and curly single right quote instead of straight ASCII apostrophe.
62  Fall back to using straight ASCII versions if we can't represent them in the
63  current character set.
64
65* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Slovak and Spanish.
66
67* Test suite:
68
69  + Add test coverage for interleaved diving data.
70
71  + Add testcase for diving data with topofil-style distance.
72
73Changes in 1.2.2 (2011-10-06):
74
75* aven:
76
77  + Replace the textured-mapped font drawing with an approach based on
78    glBitmap.  This doesn't suffer from the character alignment issues which
79    the textured-mapped fonts had, and is actually significantly faster on some
80    machines.  The current font used is (mostly) fixed-width, but this isn't an
81    inherent limitation - it was just the easiest font data to convert to a
82    usable format.
83
84  + Fix assertion failure due to rounding differences on loading certain .3d
85    files.  (ticket#26)
86
87  + Fix assertion failure when turning on 3D passages if they stick out higher
88    or lower than any station.  (ticket#29)
89
90  + Fix grid not to disappear when blobs are turned on and blobs are drawn
91    using lines.
92
93  + If a degree sign isn't available in the character set in use, transliterate
94    it to 'dg' rather than skipping it.
95
96  + Fix message which should have been a degree sign but got lost in the format
97    change for 1.2.0 and then got reassigned in 1.2.1.  Externally, this means
98    that bearings in the status bar now have a degree sign after them if they
99    are in degrees rather than nothing (1.2.0) or "&Hide Compass" (1.2.1).
100
101  + Fix print dialog to calculate the scale required for "One page" right
102    before it calculates how many pages are required, so we don't end up
103    something other than 1x1 being shown when the user changes settings.
104
105  + Update the calculations for picking a scale and for deciding how many
106    pages are needed to take into account the change in info box height made
107    in 1.2.1.
108
109Changes in 1.2.1 (2011-10-04):
110
111* Translation updates for US English.
112
113* aven:
114
115  + Rename the "depth bar" to "colour key" in documentation, menus, etc since
116    it now shows colours for dates and errors as well as depths.
117
118  + In the colour key for "colour by date", change "No info" to "Undated".
119
120  + Remove the dark grey background from the colour key and just put a single
121    pixel black border around the colours.  This is more in keeping with the
122    other controls, and means the colours are now on a black background so more
123    visually similar to the survey legs.
124
125  + Move the colour key's "Undated"/"Not in loop" entry down a little to
126    improve the appearance.  Make each section a pixel taller.
127
128  + Allow "Colour by X" to be selected even if there's no data for X or only a
129    single value of X used (the colour key is much smaller in these cases, and
130    does still provide some useful information).
131
132  + Fix incorrect calculation of depth colouring for survey legs which straddle
133    a depth band boundary.
134
135  + The scale bar, compass, clino, and colour key now all have right click
136    menus which allow related actions to be performed (especially handy in
137    full-screen mode).
138
139  + Improve the font used on the survey pane - it now contains the '-'
140    character (so the clino now shows negative angles as negative, and dates
141    in the colour key are now hyphenated).  Also the spacing and alignment
142    are a little better, though still not perfect.
143
144  + PLT file export now handles spaces and control characters in station names
145    by escaping them with '%' as in URLs.
146
147  + Pressing "Enter" on a station in the tree control now centres the view on
148    that station.
149
150  + The scale bar is now cached in an OpenGL display list since it often gets
151    redrawn exactly the same - for example, when rotating, panning, etc.
152
153  + Pressing "F5" forces all cached OpenGL drawing lists to be invalidated and
154    then forces a refresh of the survey pane.  This is intended as a debugging
155    aid - if pressing F5 changes the display at all then there's a missing case
156    where a list should have been invalidated (please report if you find such
157    a case as it is a bug).
158
159  + We now automatically track which OpenGL display lists need to be
160    invalidated on window width or height changes.
161
162  + Increase scale bar maximum width from 65% of the window width to 75% as it
163    was in 1.0.x (except that if that would overlap the clino we now reduce
164    that proportion down until it reaches 50%).  Make the limit of zooming in
165    the same as in 1.0.x.  (ticket#23)
166
167  + (Linux version): Previously wxGTK didn't really handle showing a dialog if
168    the application was fullscreen (the dialog got opened under the main
169    window!)  To work around this, aven would switch out of full screen mode
170    temporarily while showing a dialog.  This case works properly with recent
171    wxGTK, so disable our workaround with versions we know work.  Also, apply
172    the workaround only for wxGTK, not everywhere except on Microsoft Windows
173    as there's no reason to think we need it for other platforms.
174
175  + Grey out the "View North" action when we're already viewing North, and
176    similarly for other compass points.
177
178  + (Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows versions): Fix missing newline to OpenGL
179    info in the "About" dialog.
180
181  + Fix to set the correct filename on the root of the survey tree - previously
182    the filename of the previous file loaded was used!
183
184  + The movie export code now works with newer versions of the FFmpeg libraries
185    as well as still working with older versions.
186
187  + Fix mixed up messages - the print dialog now says "View" on the left
188    subgroup of controls rather than some unrelated message.
189
190  + On printouts, combine the "Plan View"/"Elevation" info box field with the
191    field which gives the bearing and reduce the height on the info box by the
192    removed field, so it's now 3cm for plans and elevations, as for extended
193    elevations.  Report the tilt angle for tilted elevations which it seems has
194    been missing for ages (it's not in recent 1.0.x either).
195
196  + Tweak the exact positioning of informational text on printouts to look
197    nicer and make better use of the available space.
198
199  + Add keyboard mnemonics to the "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in the print
200    dialog.
201
202  + Make the sign of the tilt angle for printouts consistent with the sign
203    shown by the "clino" in the survey pane.
204
205  + In the "Print" dialog, when in plan view disable the "Plan view" button,
206    and similarly for the "Elevation" button.
207
208  + (Microsoft Windows version): Sort out appearance of custom cursors.
209
210  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8 or CP1252, fall back to ISO8859-1.
211
212  + (Mac OS X version): F11 puts aven into full screen mode, but apparently
213    you can't get out again easily, so add code to explicitly check for F11
214    being pressed and toggle full screen.
215
216* (Linux version): Fix the RPM .spec file for where man pages now get installed
217  and package aven.svg and the vim support files.  (Fixes from James Begley)
218
219* "make check" now performs several checks on the translation files.
220
221* More messages are now available to be translated.
222
223* cavern: Fix reporting of ranges of survey coordinates, which was broken by
224  the message handling changes in 1.2.0.
225
226* Fix warning when compiling with GCC.
227
228* INSTALL: Mention building wxWidgets with --enable-unicode.  Mention using
229  sudo for installing on Unix.
230
231* In the manual, replace the instructions for building from source with a
232  pointer to the clearer instructions in INSTALL.
233
234* In the manual, make it clear that installing with administrator rights
235  also applies to newer platforms than XP.
236
237* doc/TODO.htm: Update.
238
239Changes in 1.2.0 (2011-09-20):
240
241* Translation updates for Catalan, French, Romanian, Spanish, Slovak, and US
242  English.
243
244* tests/smoke.tst: aven no longer requires an X display for --help or
245  --version, so replace skip of this check with a check that this remains the
246  case.
247
248* We now use the standard .po and .pot file formats for storing translations
249  (rather than the Survex-specific messages.txt format), and then translate
250  these into Survex's .msg format.
251
252* (Unix version): Move survex man page to section 7 (since it isn't documenting
253  an actual command).
254
255* (Unix version): Write each generated man page to a temporary file, then
256  atomically rename, to avoid leaving an empty or partial man page behind if
257  docbook-to-man dies (1.1.16 had an empty cad3d.1, and we want to avoid a
258  recurrence of that).
259
260* (Unix version): Default to installing docs into /usr/share/doc/survex rather
261  than /usr/doc/survex.
262
263* aven:
264
265  + Fix handling of accented characters in the survey pane.
266
267  + Aven icon redrawn in SVG format - it's now a vector image which looks
268    nicer at larger sizes.
269
270  + Explicitly request double-buffering, which seems to be needed for systems
271    with GLX >= 1.3.
272
273  + Fix crash while trying to load certain .3d files.
274
275  + Movie export code updated to work with more recent versions of FFmpeg.
276    Currently this is disabled in Microsoft Windows builds, pending getting the
277    required libraries set up for building releases.
278
279  + Reporting of errors during movie export improved.
280
281  + Force playback speed to "x1" during movie export.
282
283  + Use stock IDs for buttons where appropriate - such buttons may now be
284    rendered with icons on some platforms.
285
286  + If a label isn't valid UTF-8, treat it as CP1252 (the Microsoft superset of
287    ISO8859-1).
288
289  + (Unix version): Remove special handling for toggling "full screen" on wxGTK
290    as it's no longer required with modern versions.
291
292  + Don't redraw the survey on every mouse movement in the survey pane unless
293    the measuring line is (or just was) active.  (ticket #17)
294
295* cavern:
296
297  + Drop "non-fatal" from the report of how many errors there were at the end
298    of the run - it just confuses users - we won't even get here if there's a
299    fatal error!
300
301  + Add --3d-version option to allow the user to specify the version of the 3d
302    format to output.  (ticket#21)
303
304* img library:
305
306  + Make the highest and lowest valid values for img_output_version available
307    in img.h as IMG_VERSION_MIN and IMG_VERSION_MAX.
308
309* (Mac OS X version): Fix buildmacosx.sh script to check where the temporary
310  volume actually gets mounted.  Fix URL for downloading wxWidgets.
311
312Changes in 1.1.16 (2011-05-16):
313
314* Translation updates for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Brazilian
315  Portuguese, and US English.
316
317* Use horizontal ellipses character rather than '...' and right arrow character
318  rather than '->' where these characters are available.
319
320* (Unix version): Link with -lGL, if it exists, to support linking with gold or
321  GNU ld --as-needed (Debian bug #615781).
322
323* img.c:
324
325  + Fix code typo for IMG_API_VERSION == 0 case.
326
327  + Fix code typo in code used when IMG_HOSTED isn't defined.
328
329* doc/TODO.htm: Remove entries which have now been done.
330
331* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: We now include all the available
332  translations for messages from wxWidgets, which means that standard widgets
333  will appear translated where available even if Survex messages aren't
334  translated.
335
336Changes in 1.1.15 (2010-10-15):
337
338* aven:
339
340  + In the cavern log window, change the "Rerun" button to "Reprocess" to
341    follow terminology in manual and elsewhere.  Fixes ticket#15.
342
343  + When displaying output from cavern, don't update the window after every
344    line, but only when we don't have data from cavern pending.  Hopefully
345    addresses ticket#12.
346
347  + If we aren't using GL_POINTS for blobs, draw them using a series of
348    abutting lines rather than with gluDisk which is faster and gives a
349    consistent shape.
350
351  + Check whether blobs and crosses actually render correctly as points/point
352    sprites, and if they don't, fall back to drawing them with lines.  The
353    best method is cached on disk, and rechecked automatically if the graphics
354    hardware is changed or the drivers upgraded.
355
356  + Fix non-USE_FNT case to work again (it's limited to ISO-8859-1 characters
357    though, so we still enable USE_FNT by default).
358
359  + Don't offer "All files" wildcard in presentation save dialog.
360
361  + (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters in in
362    more places.
363
364  + (Microsoft Windows): Quote filenames with spaces and metacharacters in
365    when running cavern from aven.  Fixes ticket#11.
366
367* editwrap: (Microsoft Windows): Handle filenames with non-Latin1 characters.
368
369* diffpos: Handle files with duplicate labels in better - extend generates
370  duplicate labels when it breaks a loop.
371
372* Enable eswap-break testcase now that diffpos handles duplicate station names.
373
374* New v7 of .3d format which stores survey dates as number of days since
375  January 1st 1900, so we now support dates from 1900-2078 (rather than
376  1970-2037) with a smaller file size.  The img API is now versioned - you
377  can select the new "version 1" by compiling with -DIMG_API_VERSION=1, which
378  gives the survey dates in days in days1 and days2 instead of as time_t
379  values in date1 and date2.  Fixes ticket#14.
380
381* Consistently use http://survex.com/ rather than http://www.survex.com/ - the
382  former has been the canonical name for some time, with www.survex.com just
383  redirecting to it.
384
385* (Unix version): Use unlocked file I/O if available, which can be much faster
386  in some cases (we don't need the locking as we don't do multithreaded file
387  I/O).
388
389* (Mac version): Fix compilation failure due to clash with Point in Mac OS X
390  headers.
391
392* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh now works again.
393
394* Most tests weren't actually running any testcases (looks like a sh
395  portability issue).  This is now fixed, and fortunately all tests still pass.
396
397* Include the extra .isl translation files for Innosetup in the source archive.
398
399Changes in 1.1.14 (2010-07-26):
400
401* Restore compatibility with wxWidgets 2.6 (1.1.13 required wxWidgets 2.8).
402
403* aven:
404
405  + After processing survey data, if there were warnings or errors, add a
406    "Rerun" button to allow easy reprocessing after fixing problems.  If there
407    were only warnings, also add an "OK" button to allow moving on to viewing
408    the processed survey data (fixes ticket#13).
409
410  + Optimise updating of the cavern log window (hopefully fixes ticket#12).
411
412  + Fix links in cavern log window to link from exactly '<file>:<line>' (and
413    not the ': ' after), and to make the title for the terminal the
414    warning/error message.  Avoid false positives by checking that '<line>' is
415    a number.
416
417  + Don't double escape the contents of href and target in links in the cavern
418    log window.
419
420  + Improve handling of the splitter window, fixing behavioural glitches in
421    various cases.
422
423  + Highlight stations matching any current search when a file is loaded.
424    (ticket#9)
425
426  + (Mac version): Fix build issue due to Mac OS X polluting the global
427    namespace with its own "Point" class.
428
429  + (Unix version): The Gnome print dialog has its own preview window so
430    suppress ours if using the Gnome one.
431
432  + (Unix version): Link aven with -lGLU which SuSE Linux needs.
433
434  + (Microsoft Windows version): Fix handling of a double-click on the survey
435    tree when built with wxWidgets >= 2.8.11.
436
437* cavern: Report relevant file and line number for three warnings which didn't
438  give them before.
439
440* (Unix and Mac versions): configure: Update the wx-config probing code -
441  wxmac-config etc aren't present with newer wxWidgets versions so there's no
442  point looking for them now.
443
444* (Mac version): buildmacosx.sh: This script builds a diskimage with Survex in
445  for easy installation.  Update it to work with the latest Survex versions
446  (use WX_CONFIG not WXCONFIG; use a Unicode build of wxWidgets; if building a
447  private wxWidgets, use 2.8.11 not 2.7.0-1).
448
449* manual:
450
451  + Correctly capitalise "GTK".
452
453  + Note that on Linux we only regularly test builds with the GTK+ version
454    (change taken from 1.0).
455
456* Fixed the cad3d man page, which was an empty file in 1.1.13.
457
458Changes in 1.1.13 (2010-06-16):
459
460* Say "wxWidgets" instead of "wxWindows" consistently.
461
462* img.c: Fix small memory leak (filename_opened member).
463
464* cad3d, aven: Fix export to SVG when a label contains a '%' character.
465
466* aven:
467
468  + wxWidgets 2.6.0 or newer is now required.
469
470  + A "Unicode" build of wxWidgets is now supported.  An "ANSI" build may still
471    work but hasn't been tested recently (all packaged versions of wxWidgets
472    seem to be Unicode now).
473
474  + Fix potential uses of uninitialised variables which may have been causing
475    occasional glitches when loading a file on start-up.
476
477  + Improvements to the handling of the font used for plotting labels and other
478    text on the survey pane:
479
480    - Loading the font file is more efficient.
481
482    - Character spacing is improved.
483
484    - Default font is now anti-aliased.
485
486  + "About" dialog:
487
488    - Add "Copy" button to copy the system info to the clipboard for easier
489      bug reporting.
490
491    - List OpenGL extensions last, since there are usually lots of them with a
492      modern gfx card.
493
494    - Fix 100% CPU usage while the "About" dialog is open.
495
496  + Processing .svx files:
497
498    - Passing a .svx file on the command line now works better.
499
500    - Put the survey data log window in a splitter in the usual frame rather
501      than opening a separate frame for it.
502
503    - Auto-scroll the log window until we've reported a warning or error.
504
505    - Fix small memory leak.
506
507  + The presentation filename now defaults to using the basename of the
508    currently loaded dataset, but we always prompt before we first save with
509    such a name.
510
511  + Reduce memory usage when saving a screenshot.
512
513  + Allow "Toggle Fullscreen" to work even if no survey is loaded now that we
514    persist the window size (and maximised or fullscreen state) between
515    invocations.
516
517  + Fix reporting of OpenGL errors.
518
519  + Fix glitches when tilting while looking East.
520
521  + Added Portuguese and Slovak translations of wxWidgets messages.
522
523* Documentation:
524
525  + Rationalise manual formats - replace PostScript with PDF and drop RTF.
526
527  + Drop the "alternative manual formats" self-extracting zip file - people
528    will generally just want one of the formats, so downloading several
529    together isn't very useful.
530
531  + 3dformat.htm: Update for v6 format (thanks to Mike McCombe).
532
533  + GPL.htm: Replace HTML version of licence with a link to the version on
534    the FSF website.
535
536  + ChngeLog.htm: Stop generating an HTML version of the ChangeLog - it's too
537    low level to be of interest to non-developers, and developers can look at
538    the source code.
539
540* (Unix version): configure: New preferred name for specifying wx-config script
541  is WX_CONFIG.  WXCONFIG still supported for compatibility.
542
543* (Linux version): Source RPM package dropped as you can just build an RPM
544  package from the source tarball.
545
546* (Microsoft Windows version): The installer is now created with a newer
547  version of InnoSetup, which gives a 10% smaller download.
548
549Changes in 1.1.12 (2007-02-07):
550
551* aven:
552
553  + Remember the window size or maximised/fullscreen state between invocations.
554
555  + Add options dialog to "Export" similar to the one for "Print".
556
557  + The "number of pages required" in the print dialog now updates when you
558    change what is to be shown (underground legs/surface legs/station
559    names/crosses).
560
561Changes in 1.1.11 (2006-11-25):
562
563* Updated Czech, Spanish, and Slovak translations.
564
565* (MacOS X version): Assorted OS X specific tweaks and fixes.
566
567* aven:
568
569  + Pick a smaller and clearer font for labels.
570
571  + Fix character spacing.
572
573  + Tweak display of bearing and elevation angles to look nicer with
574    proportional fonts.
575
576  + Use the title from the 3d (or plt, etc) file for the window title
577    rather than the filename.
578
579  + Show distances to 2 decimal places rather than the nearest integer.
580
581  + Only consider underground legs when calculating the depth bands and
582    depth colouring.
583
584  + Add "Colour by Error".
585
586  + Add entry for "white" in date and error keys.
587
588  + When setting the view to a single point, don't change the scale.
589
590  + If reloading the same file, don't change the view
591
592  + Fix filetypes selector in open dialog.
593
594  + Fix the charset we use for aven in certain cases.
595
596  + Call msg_init before using msg_lang or it won't ever be set!
597
598  + Pass wx the full language code to initialise the C library locale.
599
600  + Fix bug in generating prefix tree view which could lead to a bogus
601    leading dot on some survey names (bug probably introduced in 1.1.10).
602
603  + "New Presentation" now ensures that the side panel is open
604
605  + Fix updating of cached opengl lists when the view is reset to the
606    default.
607
608* Ignore LANG if it starts with a digit to avoid problems with bogus value for
609  LANG which AutoCAD installation seems to set on MS Windows.
610
611* (Unix version): configure: Allow SGMLTOOLS and DOCBOOK_TO_MAN to be
612  specified.  Either/both can be set to ":".
613
614* dump3d: Report unknown (to dump3d) codes returned by img.
615
616* img library: Flag all stations as underground in the old "ASCII" .3d format.
617
618Changes in 1.1.10 (2006-07-14):
619
620* aven: Clicking on a survey name in the survey tree now highlights it in
621  the map view.  Double-clicking zooms the view to show the clicked survey
622  highlighted.  Clicking the root clears the highlighting and double-clicking
623  the root restores the default view.  To expand/collapse a branch, click
624  on the "[+]" or "[-]" icon to the left of the survey name.
625
626* aven: The measuring line can now measure to anywhere in plan or elevation
627  view (not just to a station!)  In plan view the horizontal distance and
628  bearing are shown, while in elevation view the vertical distance is shown.
629
630* aven: Moving the mouse over a station in the survey view now highlights
631  that station in the survey tree (though it may not be visible if the
632  survey(s) it is in aren't expanded).
633
634* aven: Clicking on a station to centre the view now moves the mouse pointer
635  to the new location of the station (except on Mac OS X where this isn't
636  allowed).
637
638* aven: Fix which presentation toolbar buttons are shown as depressed.
639
640* Fix infinite loop reading 3d files with LRUD data (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
641
642* vim files are now installed with the correct paths (bug introduced in 1.1.9).
643
644Changes in 1.1.9 (2006-07-04):
645
646* (Unix version): Install desktop files for aven and svxedit contributed to the
647  Ubuntu package by Phil Bull, and corresponding pixmaps.
648
649* Fix img to filter out cross-sections which don't match the subsurvey (if
650  specified).  The API now returns img_XSECT_END to mark the end of a
651  passage rather than setting a flag on the last img_XSECT of the passage.
652
653* Enhance integration with the vim editor - this can now colour .err files, run
654  cavern from vim and parse error output, and run aven from vim.  Tweak the
655  existing vim mode for .svx files to fix a few minor bugs and add support for
656  the new "*data passage" style.
657
658* aven: fix drawing of the "blob" end of the measuring line on graphics cards
659  which can't draw large enough blobs for us.
660
661* aven: sort out confusion about what encoding everything is in which means
662  that the distance measured by the measuring line actually gets displayed
663  and also fixes problems with empty menu items in non-English locales in
664  some cases.
665
666* aven: redraw grey background after a menu is closed over the aven window
667  with no survey loaded.
668
669* aven: fix bug which caused printing to crash (introduced in 1.1.8).
670
671* aven: avoid crash on some machines when opening "About" dialog before having
672  loaded a survey.
673
674* aven: Translate "Plan" and "Elevation" buttons in print view dialog.
675
676* (Unix version): aven: Fix character set handling of cavern output.
677
678* cavern: Report an error if a cross-section is specified for a station which
679  doesn't exist.
680
681* Updated French and Italian translations.
682
683* (Unix version): aven: Fix "Can't open message file `en_US' using path
684  `${prefix}/share/survex'" error.
685
686* Fix bug in 3d file reading on 64 bit platforms when used in STANDALONE mode
687  (doesn't affect Survex itself, but other applications which use img.c should
688  update their copy).
689
690* (Unix version): Add checks that wxWidgets is a non-unicode version (wx 2.6
691  and later are caught by configure, whereas older wx versions are caught when
692  trying to compile).
693
694Changes in 1.1.8 (2006.06.30):
695
696* Drop support for building with wxWidgets versions prior to 2.4.0
697  (which was released on 2003-01-07).
698
699* aven: Printing through aven now uses settings from the "[aven]" section
700  of print.ini, and support for hierarchical sections (using "like=")
701  has been disabled.
702
703* aven: Change mouse actions to be compatible with those in Survex 1.0.
704  The mousewheel now zooms in/out (it doesn't do anything in 1.0) and
705  left drag is now smart about not rotating and zooming at the same
706  time.
707
708* aven: Highlighting stations now happens as you type, and pressing
709  "Enter" or clicking the "Find" button now pans and zooms to show the
710  highlighted stations.
711
712* aven: Left-clicking away from a station now cancels measuring line.
713
714* aven: Setting view to North, South, East, or West is now animated like
715  the tilt from plan to elevation.
716
717* aven: Fix presentation saving to also write "." for decimal points and
718  presentation loading to accept either "." or ",".
719
720* (Unix version): aven: Add text for all toolbar items so that aven
721  will work with the Gnome desktop preference for displaying toolbars as
722  icons with text or just text (wxWidgets needs fixing first though).
723
724* (Unix version): aven: Remove the ability to detach the menu bar (yell
725  if you actually used it and I'll restore it!)
726
727* aven: Add "all survey files" option to the "open file" dialog.
728
729* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix cursor keys to pan survey.
730
731* (MS Windows version): Built with wxWidgets 2.6.3 instead of 2.6.2.
732
733* (MS Windows version): Fix installer to work on Windows 2000 or XP if
734  run by an unprivileged user.
735
736* (MS Windows version): Upgrade to the latest version of InnoSetup (the
737  installer builder we use) and include new installer translations for
738  UK English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Romanian, and Slovak.
739
740* (MS Windows version): aven: Include Catalan and Brazilian Portuguese
741  translations of messages for wxWidgets (the GUI library we use).
742
743* aven: Disable "Highlight exported points" if there aren't any.
744
745* Updates to French translation from Michel Bovey.  Also updates to German,
746  Italian, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian translations.
747
748* (Unix version): test suite: fix smoke test to pass even without X running
749  (it was meant to but the code had a bug).
750
751* aven: Check if OpenGL is available and exit cleanly with a helpful error
752  if it isn't.
753
754* (Unix version): aven: Fix --help and --version to work without a working
755  X display (provided it's built with wxWidgets 2.5.1 or newer).
756
757* aven: Automatically select the presentation tab of the notebook when the user
758  selects "New Presentation" or "Open Presentation".
759
760* aven: Fix "Delete" in the presentation list to not get passed on (and so not
761  reset to default view as well).
762
763* aven: Fix Ctrl+Insert in the presentation list not to segfault if the list is
764  empty.
765
766* aven: Fix Cursor Up and Down in the presentation list to move the highlight
767  up and down instead of being passed on and moving the survey.
768
769* aven: Improve SVG output compatibility.  Tested with Mozilla Firefox 1.5,
770  Adobe's SVG browser plugin, Gimp 2.2.8, Gqview 2.0.0, Opera 8.5,
771  Safari 2.0.3, and InkScape 0.42.
772
773* aven: Put a 5mm border around exported SVG files to allow for station markers
774  and non-zero width lines.
775
776* aven: Fix crash when exporting as SVG or Sketch if labels or surface data
777  was turned on.
778
779* aven: Actually close the file we're exporting which fixes problems with it
780  not always being fully written.
781
782Changes in 1.1.7 (2005.10.18):
783
784* cavern: Add validity checking for dates in *date commands (with feature
785  test in testsuite).  A date entered as just "year" or "year.month" now
786  becomes a date range for the relevant period (previously it became a single
787  date near the middle of that period).
788
789* extend: Fixed 2 uninitialised flags (should fix erratic behaviour on
790  with MS Windows).
791
792* extend: Default output name for a file called input.3d is now input_extend.3d
793  rather than just extend.3d (which was annoying if you wanted to extend
794  several surveys in the same directory).
795
796* aven: OpenGL 2.0 always includes support for point sprites so rework
797  our check for them to include that knowledge.
798
799* aven: Regenerate depth bar if user switches to/from metric units.
800
801* aven: Don't clear the "there" mark just because the mouse pointer has
802  moved off a station.
803
804* aven: When processing a .svx file, put the resultant .3d file in the
805  same directory (since that's where we then try to load it from).
806
807* aven: Fix labelling of date colouring on 32 bit platforms.
808
809* aven: If "colour by date" is on and we load a survey with no date info
810  (or all surveyed on the same date) then set "colour by none".
811
812* aven: Make the error dialog modal and remove a signal handler once it
813  has fired to prevent endless (or seemingly endless) cascades of error
814  dialogs.
815
816* aven: Enforce a minimum object volume diameter of 1m to avoid problems
817  if a survey file with only one station in is loaded.
818
819* aven: Fix problems with indicators disappearing when we're drawing
820  blobs and/or crosses the slow (but always supported) way.  (Problem
821  introduced in 1.1.6).
822
823* (Unix version): aven: Really stop setting extra toolbar margin when using
824  GTK2.0.  The attempt to fix this in 1.1.3 failed because __WXGTK12__ is
825  set for GTK+ 1.2 or *any later release* so is true for GTK+ 2.0 too!
826
827* (Unix version): aven: Add details of which of wxGTK, wxMotif, and wxX11
828  we've been compiled with, and which GTK+/Motif version where appropriate.
829
830* (Unix version): Fixed build on Fedora Core 3.
831
832* documentation: Updates to 3d file format specification from Mike McCombe.
833
834Changes in 1.1.6 (2005.10.10):
835
836* (MS Windows version): Distribution is about a third smaller than 1.1.5
837  (mostly because mingwm10.dll is no longer required).
838
839* aven: If aven is asked to load a .svx, .dat, or .mak file, run cavern on
840  it, showing cavern's output in a window (with errors and warnings clickable
841  to load the offending file into an editor), and then loading the resulting
842  3d file.
843
844* aven: Added "Colour by Date" option.
845
846* aven: Disable "Colour by Depth" option if there's no elevation variation.
847
848* aven: Don't crash if trying to load a survey with no elevation variation.
849  Instead turn off depth colouring.
850
851* aven: Export as HPGL added.
852
853* aven: Improved update of mouse coordinates and measuring line (thanks to
854  Martin Green).
855
856* aven: Show the coordinates of either the mouse pointer or the nearest
857  survey station to it (if there is one near enough).  Showing both was
858  confusing and meant the status bar overflowed on smaller displays.
859
860* aven: When printing an extended elevation, don't show bearing and elevation.
861
862* aven: Don't lock "flat" surveys which aren't extended elevations - a
863  flat survey with LRUD data isn't flat any more!
864
865* aven: When we have to draw blobs and crosses the slow way (because the
866  graphics hardware doesn't support the fast way), draw them so that they
867  should appear at the correct depth into the 3D scene instead of on top
868  of everything else.
869
870* aven: Make "play presentation backwards" icon green to match the other
871  presentation icons.
872
873* (MS Windows version): aven: Mouse clicks on the survey view now set the
874  keyboard focus there.
875
876* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix first redraw of a newly loaded survey.
877
878* (MS Windows version): aven: Fix redrawing of measuring line.
879
880* cavern: Store dates for img_XSECT.
881
882* cavern: Fixed small one-off memory leak if you specify -o more than once.
883
884* (Unix version): Check environmental variable LC_MESSAGES when deciding what
885  language to use for messages.
886
887* (MS Windows version): "Print" on a 3d file now prints through aven rather
888  than the separate printer driver (Unix has done this for some time).
889
890* Removed old printer drivers.
891
892* img library: When creating a 3d file, ignore img_XSECT if we've been asked
893  to write a file format version which doesn't support it.
894
895Changes in 1.1.5 (2005.09.20):
896
897* (MS Windows version): aven: Fixed crash on start-up (introduced in 1.1.4).
898
899* aven: Make blobs round like they are in Survex 1.0.
900
901* aven: If the graphics drivers don't support drawing blobs using OpenGL
902  point markers, fall back to drawing filled circles.
903
904* aven: If the graphics drivers support it, draw crosses as texture mapped
905  OpenGL point markers which is much faster.
906
907* aven: Cross size increased to match Survex 1.0.
908
909* aven: We must update which blobs are displayed if display of surface or
910  underground legs is toggled.
911
912* cavern: Fix handling of a *solve followed by survey data, none of which is
913  attached to the previous data.
914
915* cavern: Fixed "No survey data" error when a *solve is followed by another
916  *solve (or the implicit solve at the end of processing) with no data between
917  them.
918
919Changes in 1.1.4 (2005.09.19):
920
921* aven: Added Aven's icon to the "About" dialog.
922
923* aven: Use localised character for the decimal point (e.g. "," in most
924  continental European countries).
925
926* aven: Previously the survey tree would get focus and then take keypresses
927  (e.g. "P", "L", "Delete").  Now we pass most keypresses across so they
928  operate on the cave, and transfer the input focus across when we do.
929
930* aven: Make pressing "Return" in the tree control expand/collapse a subtree.
931
932* aven: Speed up intialisation by delaying creation of OpenGL lists until
933  they're needed.
934
935* aven: Added Mark Shinwell's bounding box with shadow of the survey.
936
937* aven: Disable the "Tubes" button/menu item when there's no LRUD data.
938
939* aven: Reworded "Restore Default Settings" as "Restore Default View".
940
941* (Unix version): aven: Set sensible default margins for printing and preserve
942  any margin values the user specifies between runs (previously margins
943  defaulted to 0 each time aven was run).
944
945* Documentation: Document *DATA PASSAGE in the manual.
946
947Changes in 1.1.3 (2005.09.07):
948
949* (Microsoft Windows version): Fixed build problems.
950
951* cavern: Allow OMIT character (-) for left/right/up/down.
952
953* aven: Remove an unnecessary menu separator.
954
955* aven: Fix "Find" and "Hide" toolbar buttons to work with GTK2.0.
956
957* aven: Make the tooltip for "Hide" show the number of found stations.
958
959* aven: If * or ? is used in a glob-style pattern, force a non-substring match.
960
961* aven: Enable "New Presentation" when there's a 3d file loaded, rather than
962  when there's a presentation loaded.
963
964* aven: Make entrances green in side panel tree list to match green blobs used
965  in cave view.
966
967* aven: Don't show surface labels if we're not showing surface data, etc.
968
969* aven: Merge "Start Rotation" and "Stop Rotation" into "Toggle Rotation" and
970  make "Space" the key for this.  Keep Return working "Stop Rotation" so
971  existing users are happy, but don't advertise it.
972
973* aven: Normalise filename by adding any extension used, and use the normalised
974  filename for file history and window title.
975
976* (Unix version): aven: Stop setting extra toolbar margin when using GTK2.0
977  as the toolbar buttons already have a sensible margin - the extra margin is
978  only needed with GTK1.2.
979
980* aven: Fix handling of plumb legs in tube model.
981
982* aven: Fixed swapped L and R in tube model.
983
984* extend: Preserve UD cross-section information in extended elevation.
985
986* extend: Add new messages for John Pybus' enhancements.
987
988Changes in 1.1.2 (never formally released):
989
990* Added support for LRUD data in .svx files, in .3d files, and aven can
991  now load and display it on screen and on printouts.  The ability to "fake"
992  LRUD data in aven is gone for now but will reappear in some form later.
993
994* cavern: Removed support for writing Chasm's 3dx format.  We're going to
995  fold any desirable missing chasm functionality into aven.
996
997* aven: Rearranged mouse actions as discussed on the mailing list.  Added
998  cursors for each different mouse action to help the user learn what each
999  does.  Also added cursors for the "compass" and "clino" as well as the
1000  scalebar to suggest to the user that they can be dragged to change the view.
1001
1002* (Unix version): aven: Don't segfault if LANG isn't a known language.
1003
1004* tests/smoketest.tst: If X windows is running, check that we can run aven
1005  with --help and --version.
1006
1007* tests/cavern.tst: Fixed cavern.tst to warn if it is skipping a test because
1008  no results are listed for it.  This revealed that there was a "newline" test
1009  which should have been called "badnewline", and was a broken testcase too!
1010  Fixed all these problems.
1011
1012* cavern: Applied Simeon Warner's patch for handling backcompass, backclino,
1013  and omitted forward compass/clino readings in Compass DAT files.  Added
1014  a feature test for this to the testsuite.
1015
1016* It no longer makes sense to have an option not to build aven or to build aven
1017  without OpenGL so remove old machinery for this from configure and the
1018  sources.
1019
1020* (Unix version): configure: Check if "-lXxf86vm" is needed.
1021
1022* configure: Better output for strcasecmp test.
1023
1024* aven: Fix crosses to work much better.  Not a total fix - their position
1025  in the Z buffer isn't correct and they're rather slow to plot.
1026
1027* aven: Don't regenerate the hittest grid every time the mouse moves while
1028  animating, which solves the mysterious pausing effect (thanks go to Martin
1029  Green for spotting this!)  Also clear all the status bar coordinates when
1030  animating.
1031
1032* aven: Sort out clashing menu shortcuts in some languages.
1033
1034* aven: Fixed compilation problem on x86_64
1035
1036* SPUD: Pruned out stuff which has been done or which is not actually relevant
1037  to this branch.
1038
1039* Merge various changes from 1.0 branch:
1040
1041  + aven: Port over "printing from aven" functionality.
1042
1043  + aven: Port over "export as" functionality,
1044
1045  + Add David Loeffler's vim mode for .svx files.
1046
1047* aven: Fix check for whether a label is behind us in perspective view.
1048
1049* aven: Don't use an opengl list for drawing the indicators - we typically make
1050  a new list each time we plot them anyway.
1051
1052* Remove lingering traces of support for RISC OS and pre-386 MSDOS
1053
1054* aven: Set icon on non-Windows platforms too.  This means that with
1055  WindowMaker on Unix you get an icon on the AppIcon by default.
1056
1057* configure: Update wxWindows checks to handle newer wx versions.
1058
1059* Make all maintainer perl scripts "use bytes;" to avoid utf-8 double encoding
1060  problems.  They also all require Perl 5.8 now (hopefully this isn't an issue
1061  for anyone building from CVS).
1062
1063* acinclude.m4: Quote macro name for fix autotools warning.
1064
1065* Documentation: "tilt up" is "'" not ",".
1066
1067* aven: Add support for mousewheels (to tilt the cave).
1068
1069* aven: Fixed twisted transitions to and from pitches in certain cases.
1070
1071* aven: Pick a sensible initial window size when the user's desktop is spread
1072  over more than one monitor (works best with wx2.5 or newer, but try to do
1073  better with wx2.4 or earlier as well).
1074
1075* aven: Initialise GfxCore slightly later to avoid visual glitch from notebook
1076  contents being visible before any survey is loaded.
1077
1078* aven: Allow a coloured texture to be used
1079
1080* aven: Don't initialise until we have data (to the user, this means the window
1081  is default colour (grey for most systems) not black until a survey is
1082  loaded).
1083
1084* aven: Fixed weird "shadowed" icons.
1085
1086Changes in 1.1.1 (2004-10-06):
1087
1088* (Microsoft Windows version): aven: Hopefully fix loading a survey file at
1089  startup.
1090
1091* aven: Delay loading the bitmap for the "About" dialog until it is first
1092  needed.  We want start up to be as quick as possible.
1093
1094Changes between 1.0.32 and 1.1.0 (never formally released):
1095
1096* NOTE: Survex 1.1.X releases are development snapshots made available for
1097  the purposes of allowing wider testing and getting more user feedback.  Once
1098  the code has stabilised the version number will be raised to 1.2.0.
1099
1100* aven: Now uses OpenGL for 3d rendering - you may need to install drivers if
1101  you're using Windows 95 - these can be obtained from:
1102  http://download.microsoft.com/download/win95upg/info/1/W95/EN-US/Opengl95.exe
1103
1104* aven: Solid passages - passage dimensions are currently inferred from
1105  the leg length (pretty effective as you can measure longer legs in
1106  larger passages).  Use of real LRUD data coming soon...
1107
1108* aven: Depth colouring is now continuously varying.
1109
1110* aven: Colour by depth can now be turned off (and there's the start of a
1111  framework for properly implementing colour by date, error, etc).
1112
1113* aven: Find stations moved onto the toolbar and now uses a simple wildcarded
1114  match (? matches any character, * matches any number of characters).
1115
1116* aven: We now use the status bar for coordinates, distances, etc to make
1117  better use of screen space.
1118
1119* aven: Full screen mode (F11).
1120
1121* aven: Perspective view.
1122
1123* aven: Context sensitive cursor shape - needs more work.
1124
1125* aven: Mouse actions changed (hopefully they're now more natural, but
1126  you may find the change disorientating - feedback wanted on this).
1127
1128* aven: Added "presentations" which allow you to set up fly-through paths
1129  and load/save/run them.
1130
1131* aven: A presentation can be exported as a movie file.
1132
1133* aven: Added Save screenshot facility.
1134
1135* aven: Depth fogging option.
1136
1137* aven: Added Smooth Lines option.
1138
1139* aven: Added Textured Walls option.
1140
1141* aven: If a survey has surface legs but no underground legs, default to
1142  showing the surface legs.
1143
1144* cavern: Dates given to *date are now stored in the 3d file.
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